The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One

by Hanzi Freinacht

you despise hillbillies and mainstream whites but not the same positions within other communities, you are implicitly downgrading other ethnicities, as whites are seen as more morally responsible than minorities.)

This I call "postmodernist racism". In trying to fight modernist racism and orientalism, the postmodernists themselves become racist and orientalist.

note that if you’re not a developmentalist you can’t say why feminism and animals rights would be better than mainstream capitalism.

The essence of why postmodernism is nonsense outside the confines of pure intellect. Once you say "better", you're no longer a postmodernist.

The postmoderns end up alienating a vast majority of normal modern people, making them feel confused, insulted and frustrated. And once that has gone on for a long while, the majority revolts and begins voting with Trump and the nationalists. Non-postmodern people begin to feel a subtle sense of revenge when somebody speaks out against political correctness.

So are those who blame postmodernism (at least partly) for Trump, taking a metamodern view of life, though they may or may not know it?

Metamodernists define themselves through the struggle of value memes against value memes: It’s not if you’re Right or Left that matters the most, but how complex your thinking is.

What we usually call reality is only “actuality”, one slice of an infinitely larger, hypercomplex pie. Actuality is only a “case of” a deeper reality, called “absolute totality”.

"Actuality" will be our metamodern substitute for modernism's "truth", and help us counter the postmodernist claim that nothing is actually the truth.

Postmodernism is interested not so much in what is true, in what should be done, but rather in questioning everything, in picking things apart, deconstructing them, to make us think again, to make us less sure, to make life harder for those who would control or manipulate others: the politicians, the media moguls, the scientists and the medical professionals.

This is why it is a negative philosophy...it can only destroy, not construct, but once it destroys, something must be erected in that place - metamodernism.